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There are at present no effective antiaging medicines. Yet the field keeps expanding. Currently, popular practices include live-cell therapy (injecting the fetal cells of animals into human beings), caloric restriction (drastically limiting the number of calories a body takes in) and hormone therapy (to restore hormones to levels found in younger people...
...those inquiries, the findings of which are expected to be issued soon by Air Force Lieut. General Randall Schmidt, was spurred by eyewitness accounts from FBI agents at Gitmo from mid-2002 to mid-2004. According to just-released memos, agents reported seeing captives shackled in a fetal position for 24 hours without food or water and left in their own excrement, another gagged with duct tape that covered much of his head and another who had torn out his hair after being chained all night in a hot room. Former Army Sergeant Erik Saar, who served at Gitmo...
...About a year ago Nick [Orenstein] and I decided to start an acoustic engineering firm,” said Rapoport, the chief engineer of LONO. “Through one of Nick’s connections in Dallas we came across these investors who had a product to monitor fetal heartbearts in utero. They had tried to create this device before, but it had never been successful...
...Katherine Hartmann, the report's lead author, estimates that 1 million women in the U.S. have an unnecessary episiotomy each year. There may be cases in which the procedure is called for--the one you will hear most commonly is fetal distress, which necessitates delivering the baby quickly, before a woman has had time to fully dilate--but according to Hartmann, they are a lot rarer than many obstetricians think...
...father saw this and he used to say, "oh you guys will get over this when your reach your teens and you get out and play football." He was just totally bewildered by us. He saw us as Martians. We'd be lying on our beds in the fetal position, reading comics. He was a man of action, a U.S. marine. "Get off your duffs!" We broke his heart. He had three sons and they all turned out to be complete defective weirdoes. My older brother [Charles] committed suicide. He's dead. But my other brother [Max] is still alive...